Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-01


The British barb Alice Mafr, CAPTAIN
farnell $50 net tonnage, wss towe6 d
50 Wednesday By the British steam
taz Pilst from M0odyviIle. B. G. iadsl
for Melbourne.
Ths British bark John KspIsr arrived
IN San Francisco On last Friday. 8
days from Newcastle. The vessel haI
been chartered % FefnKn 10 Melbournl
With . cargo Of lumber.
The schooner Juanits has sailed from
Viotoria for BehFing 50 on ssalins
expeditiou-
Tie British ship Auamba arrived IN
Yokohama on the 24tk instant from
MoodyyiIle. lumber la~en-
A quaGtity Fl snppiies for the 0reeA
churches IN Alaska were taken on the
steamers Dora and Sc. Paul fr0m San
Francisco last week.
Tbe British bark Carrie Deiap, Cap-
tain Lewis. Il16 net tonnaRe. that sailed
from Pert Blakely on December 24th,
lumber laden, arrived on the I'd in
slant, - days 0af. &C Rio DE- JaneiFo.
The ship 81. Stephens, Capt. We Is.
Doneias, 1092 net tonnage, coal laden.
was towed down from Seattle yesterday.
bv the tug Mogul bound TO San Fran
cisco. She vent 10 So Ct .. N.
The British ship Rydalmere. Captain
Green, 1916 net tonnage, Is oat " days
from MarypoFt, England, bound 10
Seattle Ioaded with Railroad iren.
The British iron bark Gienlyon, Cap
tain Gail. 664 not tonnage, that sailed
% Novenbeg 18th from Burrard's Inlet,
arrived last week in Buenas Ayrss,
making the passage In 119 days.
Special correspondence from San
Francisco says: s'fhe price of soft iron
has BEEN further advanced and buyers
6ud IL difncult 10 secure even small
quantities at the advance, as helders
are 10th to red1cs their stocks. fearing
that they then selves cannot replace il
when IL 10 required for their own con-
sumption later on. All the sSft iren
bere IL in tie consumers hands. The
impoTters have disposed Of all thev had.
The ting Tacsma toWed the Morse
Riaa bark Mediterranean 10 sea
yesterday, lumber laden for Melbourne.
A strong southeast wind was blew
ing all day yesterday and from the
general indications the weather clerks
are prophesying O storm before the
week Is ended.
The tug Holyoke towed boom Of logs
to Port Hadlock yesterday.
The bark Don Carlos sailed on Taes-
day from San francisco 10 load return
sarge OF coal at Nanaimo. This vessel
was formerly the Chinese bark Hong
ksnR, which PIT into San Francisco In
q leaking condition and was afterwards
condemned. She was sold and more
romantic name now ornaments her
sides.
The bark MARY Glover, now lying ct
Port Discovery. will undergo repairs
this week. Four carpenters from the
yards of Middlemast d Beols, ship
builders at Port Ludlow, were sent over
to Port Discovery yesterday 10 put in
rev top sides and other repairs neces-
sary to take their vessel to San Fran
cisco, where she will 90 on the MeF-
chants dry dock and have her bottom
oaulked.
DISTRICT COURT PRocKEDrNGs.
The case Of 4. P. Bsiler. administra-
tor Of the estate Of j. p. Bailsr. against
the County Commissioners OF San juan
County, for $1,000 damages for cutting q
public highway through the land Of
Bailer and the Bailer estate, came np
for hearing yesterday. d. W. Smith
and g Morris Halter represented the
plaintiff, and San Juan County's inter
ests we're 10 the hands of Messrs. John
j. Calhoun and James Hamilton Lewis.
After the argument, which lasted for
nearly tWo hours. the jury retired and
an hour later returned g verdict award
ing plaintiff the damages asked for in
the complaint.
CharIeg Summers who, in q drunken
row at the Charles Hotel on the 9th
nltims assaulted Ned Barrett with q
deadly weapon, was tried yesterday.
The Jury returned a verdict OF gailty as
charged in the indictment.
Charles Sepro, the Jew peddleF who
was arrested recently for committing
bodily iDjnry on an sight-year-old boy.
was arraiQned for trial last evening.
The argument by j. Hamilton Lewis,
of Seattle, for the unconstitutionality
of the Local Option Law, was being
made at o'clock last evening. A great
deal OF interest was being manifested.
The Miller murder case vas trans
.erIed TO Seattle by the dismissal Of the
indictment found here and holding
under the indictment ct Seattle.
The injunction was dissolved In the
case Of the Union Wharf Company vs..
A. /. Smith.
The case Of the seamen Va. the bark
ID. o. Murray came up this afternoon.
No defense being made, Judgment by
default was rendered to plaintiffs. The
amount granted was $500 for the sea
men.
ON THE COAL TRADE
The coal Importation int San Fran
cisco last week amounted TO 70, 649 tons.
OF that amount 1851 tons came from
the Puget sound, 10. 75l tons from Brit
ish CoIumhia and fFona Great RFikfan